Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/280

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Geofocus: Arab League countries editathon
Online event August 2023
Arab women event 2015
Meetup	280
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Geofocus: Arab League countries
August 2023

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Q & R Art+Feminism Find Her
April 2024:	Alphabet run: S & T Gender studies Health
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education
Upcoming events:	Press women Alphabet run: U, V & W Geofocus: Central and Eastern Europe Ideas

Welcome!

In August, Wiki Women in Red's geofocus is centered on women from the Arab League countries, several of which are frequently covered in news reports. See the Redlists section below for a full listing.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women from or associated with these countries.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features "Did You Know?" and "In The News".

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create month by month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, or successfully nominate for Main Page, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Red-link lists of women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for women from the Arab League countries are listed below. Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies.

Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: Algeria Bahrain Comoros Djibouti Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Somalia Sudan Syria Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen

Redlinked names not currently included in a Women in Red redlist

add names here, with a source if possible

Participants

• Ipigott (talk) 18:22, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 03:10, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

• Thilsebatti (talk) 18:24, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
• PamD 23:33, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
• Scanlan (talk) 18:19, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
• gobonobo ^{+ c} 01:21, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
• Curbon7 (talk) 03:43, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
• TJMSmith (talk) 00:04, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
• Darwin Naz (talk) 12:42, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
• RomanDeckert (talk) 20:26, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

New or upgraded articles

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

1. Mona Khalil - TW
2. Malika el Assimi
3. Djamila Bouazza
4. Nejla Abu-Izzedin - PIN
5. Mitra Abbaspour
6. Odette Kaddo - PIN
7. Sonia Mabrouk - PIN
8. Saba Hamzah
9. Fatima Naoot - PIN
10. Fadwa (name)
11. Fadwa Obeid - PIN
12. Kanza Omar - PIN
13. Rawda Al-Farkh Al-Hudhud
14. Jalila Baccar (also WIR-279) - PIN

Promote our work

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
• Add IG after the article if you post in on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

Did You Know features

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

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  Nejla Abu-Izzedin
• 
  Kanza Omar

References

Event templates

• Invitation: August 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Geofocus: East Asia Template:WIR-280: {{WIR-280}}